Nazareth Semay Birhan Choir

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History of the Semay Birhan group

Nazareth is the former name of Adama, the capital of the Oromia Region.

On the history of the yäsämay bǝrhan [የሰማይ ብርሃን] group, view excerpts of

  • Nathan B. Hege (1998), Beyond Our Prayers
  • Tibebe Eshete (2009), The Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia
  • Jörg Haustein (2011), Writing Religious History

History and Ministry of the Semay Birhan Choir

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Album

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Connect

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Audio

(1) Song with lyrics

Song yäsämay bǝrhan [የሰማይ ብርሃን]:

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(2) Documentation
Biography of Million Belete

Video

Documentation on the history of the MKC

Against Great Odds – African Christians Survive Persecution. Gateway Films, 1992. [Watch on Vimeo (fees apply)]

Further reading

(1) Sources

? Solomon Kebede _ _ _

Mennonite Church USA Archives (Elkhart, IN)

? Paul M. and Ann (Keener) Gingrich Papers
[Ref. Code: US MCUSAA HM1/722]

(2) Literature

Alemu Checole, assisted by Samuel Asefa. “Mennonite Churches in Eastern Africa,” in Anabaptist Songs in African Hearts, ed. by J.A. Lapp, C.A. Snyder, p. 191253. Intercourse, PA: Good Books; Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2006. [See p. 22021]

Bekele Woldekidan. ረቫይቫል : _ _ _ [Revival: Ethiopia and the Final End]. Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa Full Gospel Believers’ Church, 2002.

Hege, Nathan B. Beyond Our Prayers: Anabaptist Church Growth in Ethiopia, 1948‒1998. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1998.

Haustein, Jörg. Writing Religious History: The Historiography of Ethiopian Pentecostalism. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011.

Tibebe Eshete. The Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia: Resistance and Resilience. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009. [2nd ed. 2017]